philosophical thoughts re discrete
ueb
> Ed Fredkin wrote:
>>
>> We have all been trained, at a young age, to embrace the wondrous formulae
>> that come from the calculus of continuous space, time and state. The price
>> is nothing more than an acquired suspension of disbelief and for a very few,
>> a nagging feeling of discomfort.
>>
> Physics is not about feelings, but about quantitative predictions that
> can be experimentally verified (or falsified). These 'wondrous' formulae
> , as you call them, are immensely successful in describing the
> experimental facts we know today. The opposite is true when we enter the
> realm of 'discrete physics'. As much as I enjoy reading articles about
> that topic, what is lacking is a framework that would allow one to reach
> conclusions, which eventually lead to verifiable predictions.
> Markus
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> of the Freie Universität Berlin.
It seems as though people cannot distinguish basics and method. In order
to computate with this stuff, one must always discretize.
See also my post in the "first thread".